RHSA-2012:0476 - Security Advisory

Topic

An updated MRG Management Console package that fixes several security
issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate
security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in
the References section.

Description

Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, and Grid) is a next-generation
IT infrastructure for enterprise computing. MRG offers increased
performance, reliability, interoperability, and faster computing for
enterprise customers.

Several cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws were found in the MRG Management
Console (Cumin). An authorized user on the local network could use these
flaws to perform cross-site scripting attacks against MRG Management
Console users. Note: Refer to the MRG Messaging User Guide for information
on configuring authentication and authorization in the MRG Messaging
broker. (CVE-2012-1575)

Users of Red Hat Enterprise MRG Management Console are advised to upgrade
to this updated package, which corrects these issues. The MRG Management
Console must be restarted ("service cumin restart") for this update to take
effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• MRG Grid 2 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• MRG Grid 2 for RHEL 5 i386
• MRG Grid from RHUI 2 for RHEL 5 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 805712 - CVE-2012-1575 cumin: multiple XSS flaws

CVEs

• CVE-2012-1575

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/index.html